No More Learning

The same that the frogs had of Jupiter's stork.
With the Turk in his head, and the Pope in his

heart.
Father Patrick's disciples will make £lngland

smart
If e'er he be king, I know Bntain's doom,
We must all to a stake, or be converts to Rome.
Ah, Tudor ! ah, Tudor ! of Stuarts enough ;
None ever reigned like old Bess in the ruff.
Her Walsingham could dark counsels unriddle.
And our Sir Joseph write news, books, and fiddle.

WOOL-CHURCH.

Truth, brother, well said ; but that 's somewhat

bitter ;
His perfumed predecessor was never more

fitter :
Yet we have one secretary honest and wise ;
For that very reason, he 's never to rise.
But can'st thou devise when things will be

mended ?



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268 THE POEMS

CHARING.

When the reign of the line of the Stuarts is ended.

CONCLUSIOX.

If speeches from animals in Rome's first age,

Prodigious events did surely presage,

That should come to pass, all mankind may

swear
That which two inanimate horses declare.
But I should have told you before the jades

parted,
Both galloped to Whitehall, and there humbly

farted;
Which tyranny's downfall portended much more.
Than all that the beasts had spoken before.
If the Delphic Sibyl's oracular speeches
(As learned men say) came out of their breeches.
Why might not our hoi*ses, since words are but

wind.
Have the spirit of prophecy likewise behind ?
Though tymnts make laws, which they strictly

proclaim.
To conceal their own faults and to cover their

shame, [the wall,

Yet the beasts in the field, and the stones in
Will publish their faults and prophesy their fall ;
When they take from the people the freedom of

words.
They teach them the sooner to fall to their swords.



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OP MAUVELL. 269

Let the city drink coffee and quietly groan, —
They who conquered the father won't be slaves

to the son.
For wine and strong drink make tumults increase,
Chocolate, tea, and coffee, are liquors of peace ;
No quarrels, or oaths are among those who drink

'em,
'Tis Bacchus and the brewer swear, damn *em /

and sink *em !
Then Charles thy edict against coffee recall,
There 's ten times more treason in brandy and ale.



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HODGE'S VISION FROM THE MONUMENT,

DECEMBER 1675.

A conntiy clown called Hodoe, went up to yiew
The pjrramid; pray mark what did ensue.



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When Hodge had numbered up how many score
The airy pyramid contained, he swore
No mortal wight e'er climbed so high before.
To the best vantage placed, he views around
The imperial town, with lofty turrets crowned ;
That wealthy storehouse of the bounteous flood.